Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I continue to keep tabs on 215 Ave. B at 13th Street. I stop by and take photos every few weeks. This is how it looked Sunday afternoon.

Curbed has the details on the Copper Building, home once to the Roberto Clemente Center community clinic and, before that, a grocery store.

When I was taking these shots a month or so ago, this couple walked up behind me. The man, hipstery in his late 20s, says in my direction, "Who in the fuck would want to live there?" As if maybe I was taking photos as a potential buyer! Hey get your own blog!

No information just yet one how much one of the 17 units will cost (from studios to two bedrooms). But you will have prime views of the the Housing Authority's Campos Plaza just a few hundred feet due east...

4 comments:

That's a pretty wretched corner. It's really hard to imagine that they think they can gentrify that block with the projects right there. However, you can ride a bike from there all the way to East River Park with barely having to go on a busy street.

To the 20-something hipster who commented to you under the warm confines of his overpriced American Apparel hoody, "who the fuck would want to live there?" I would reply, that it doesn't matter where in the city you plant a condo, it could be in the fourth stall in the piss- drenched bathroom at Penn Station- every single unit in this building will be sold at asking price, and very quickly at that. Regardless of the shitty view, the crumbling projects a stones throw away, or any other scar the neighborhood may bear, this is Manhattan, and every square inch of this stupid island is treated like gold. So to the 20 something hipster who probably works at an organic coffee shop in Williamsburg, I would fucking live there, as would any other person with a shred of real estate intellect. Also I would like to say to him that I like his knitted cap. Seriously, it's cool. I'm not just saying that.

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